5 posts tagged “berkeley”
Watch a lot of movies. 6 movies in the past 7 days. It puts me at nowhere near 3,000 movies, but it's more than I usually watch (about one per month).
The Darjeeling Limited
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hero
Black Mask
The Royal Tenenbaums
Fanaa
I liked them all; for various reasons I am too lazy to document here. And I'm going to see another one today. Yesterday I went to see the Berkeley Rose Garden. It was nice.
My future summer plans:
- Yosemite
- Outdoor climbing
- Muir Woods
- Alcatraz
- Seeing more of San Francisco and the Bay Area
- More fun things
Cheers to having so many avenues of entertainment at my disposal this summer.
I'm SO excited to be a part of my professor's transportation experiment tomorrow that involves using GPS phones as traffic sensors! In this case it's the Nokia N95, a phone that everyone participating in the experiment has a chance to win, whether s/he is a driver or a staff member of some sort. It's a pretty big experiment that involves 100 drivers over the course of a whole day, and I'm going to be a phone operator. I totally thought I was going to be a volunteer, until last week when I found out I was getting paid even more than the drivers! What's crazy is that my compensation is like peanuts compared to the overall cost of the experiment, which I don't think I'm at liberty to disclose. The whole affair runs from early morning until night, so I need to go to bed soon. Why? I slept two hours last night. Why? This time, believe it or not, it's NOT because of poor time management, which is a bit mind-boggling. I just have THAT much work to do. I'm sure other grad students can relate. At Berkeley I've learned that you should deal with never being able to get 100% of everything done, but maybe that's a general rule you can apply to life after the age of 20, or maybe just life as a graduate student at a competitive university. Have a great weekend everyone!
A few days ago I made these pecan rolls with my mom:
They used quite a bit of butter (about 1 Tbsp. per roll), but they were SO good, especially right out of the oven (like most baked goods...). The recipe came from page 63 of the book below, which I purchased after eating the Cheese Board's absolutely fantastic pizza on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. I highly, highly recommend both going to the Cheese Board if you are in Berkeley for a slice of pizza or a scone... or a loaf of bread... or a muffin..., or simply purchasing the book if you like baking and would like some fantastic recipes.
Edit: I feel uncomfortable posting the recipe here because it's from a copyrighted book, but you can find it online. Just go to the Google Book Search and type in: cheese board bakery. Click on the first result you see, which should take you to the page for browsing the book. Skip to page 63, and there you go. Luckily for you, the recipe for pecan rolls is not one that was omitted from the book preview!
I took this photo the other day while I was walking home through campus. Gorgeous.
In no particular order, here are the grad schools to which I have been accepted. I have no clue where I should decide to go. A little help?
A) Berkeley:
- the program: MS in CEE, Civil Systems Program
- aid: $9,063 ($5,161 for being a graduate student instructor and a $3,902 stipend) for the spring semester
- tuition rate: $23,828.50
- location: I've never been here (Berkeley, CA)
- timeline: I have to decide by ??? I should probably check on this.
B) Carnegie Mellon:
- the program: MS in Architecture--Sustainable Design
- aid: $8,900 ($4450 per semester)
- tuition rate: $30,900
- location: I've never been here (Pittsburgh, PA)
- timeline: I have to decide by May 7th, 2007.
C) CO-Boulder:
- the program: MS in CEAE, Building Systems Program
- aid: pending
- tuition rate: $23,040
- location: I've never been here, either! (Boulder, CO)
- timeline: I have to decide by June 15, 2007.
x) Iowa:
- Out of the question, given my other acceptances...
x) Stanford:
- I haven't heard from you yet. You're pretty much out of the question too.
